First Notes – May 2017
This writing finds me on the Thursday after Easter. Holy Week and the Easter services are just in the rear-view mirror. All told, it wasn’t …
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First Notes – April 2017
“Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and …
First Notes – March 2017
The purpose of this month’s front page is three-fold: the first is a reminder of the midweek events that will be held during the upcoming …
First Notes – February 2017
Given that Easter falls on April 16th this year, we will have a relatively late start to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten …
First Notes – January 2017
As we welcome 2017 into the ranks of history, I come to you with an assortment of odds and ends this month instead of some …
First Notes – December 2016
As a number of you may have figured out by this time, I haven’t exactly been bashful in hiding my concern and lament over what’s …
First Notes – November 2016
I have an assortment of odds and ends for you this month. First, in last month’s Chapel Chimes I wrote a bit about the notion …
First Notes – October 2016
Covenant. It is a word that is defined as an agreement—between two or more parties—and it’s a fairly big word in our faith tradition. God …
First Notes – September 2016
When it comes to the life and ministry of the church, the fall of the year is the time when the programming of the church …
First Notes – July & August 2016
My reflections this month may not seem profoundly theological—unless you include gratitude as something profoundly theological (and I do). And at this time I wish …